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J. URBANEK.

CAR INDICATOR.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 11. 19:9.

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' J. URBANEK.

CAR INDICATOR.

APPLICATION FILED APR. II. NIB.

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I. URBANEK.

CAR INDICATOR. APPLICATION FILED APR. II. 1919.

1,312,146. Patented Aug. 5,1919.

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INVENTOR Jase/k Vrbaizelz ATTORNEY UNITED STATES PATENT oarson JOSEPHUBIBANEK, or tamer), iLilIiroIs.

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Application filed April 11, 1919. Serial in). 289,306; i

To all whom itmay concern: a Be it known that I, Josnrn URBANEK a citizen of Austria, residing section isshow i i A further object is to combine with the apparatus track side devices whereby such disclosure is accomplished without the aid of the operators of the car.

These and otherlike objects are attained by the novel construction and combination of parts hereinafter described, and shown in the accompanying drawings, forming a material part of this disclosure, and in which a a r Figure 1 is a side elevational view showing a conventional type of car,and indicating the application of the invention, parts being broken away in order to disclosethe interior construction.

Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view taken on line 22 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is an enlarged fragmentary view showing the operating means, the cover plate by which they are concealed being removed.

Fig. 4 is an enlarged fragmentary sectional view showing the roller operating devices by which the stations are disclosed.

Fig. 5 is a fragmentary sectional view taken on line 55 of Fig. 4.

Fig. 6 is an enlarged fragmentary side elevational view showing the front portion of the side connections.

Fig. 7 is a horizontal sectional view taken on line 7-7 of Fig. 1, and

Fig. 8 is a horizontal sectional view taken on line 88 of Fig. 3.

Referring to the drawings, the numeral 10 indicates a conventional type of streetcar, mounted upon wheels 11, resting upon a pair of running rails 12, all of the foregoing parts being of the usual type of construc- Secured below the platform of the car .10, at the endsthereof, are brackets 14, inclosed in casings 15, while below the center of the car is another casing 18, provided with a pair of oppositely disposed brackets 19, in which are rotatably mounted spindles 20, carrying pairs of spur gears 21 and 22. These gears are engaged with a rack bar 23, having teeth upon opposite sides, the upper teeth engaging with the teeth of the gears,

while the lower teeth engage with the teeth of a segment 24, pivoted on a pin 25,

carried in an extension 26 of the casing 18.

. The segment is operated by an extending lever 27, in which is rotatably engaged, at its lower end a roller 28. I

The teeth of thegears 20 and 21 are also engaged with another singlerack 30 guided in the casing 18, both the racks being normally held'in a centralposition, due to the effect of the coiledcompression springs 31 and 32, these springs encircling rods 34 and 35, the same beingarranged in offset pairs, one over the other, and terminating in racks 36 and37,arranged to actuate gears 40,

. freely mounted on spindles41, carried in the brackets 14. y

Arranged to the side of the gears 40 are ratchet wheels42, operatedby spring impelled dogs 43, so as to communicate rotary anotion in one direction only to the spindles 41.

Secured to the ends of the spindles 41 are bevel gears 44, meshing with pinions 45, adapted to communicate rotary movement to vertical rods46, having bevel pinions 47 at their upperen'ds engageable with other bevel gears 48, fixed upon the shafts 50, rotatably *mounted on the casings 51, at-

*tached respectively at the inner ends of the car, and driving crown gears 52. The gears in turn communicate motion, either direct or indirect, to spur gears 54, mounted on vertical spindles 55, which have attached to them drums 57 having flanged ends 58, and carrying a coil of fabric 60 upon which are the names of the stations.

The strip 60 as it is moved, is held to the front of the casing, in which is an aperture 61, by rods 62, so that the names can be easily seen from either end of the car.

The track side connections by which this mechanism is operated, consists of a pair of rail side bars 70, normally pressed upward by coiled compression springs 71, arranged at each end thereof, the ends 72 of the bars being downturned.

Engaged centrally between the ends of the bars 70, arebrackets 73 in which are short levers 74c, pivoted at their outer ends' by pins 7 5. These levers are engaged near the center of their length by transmission links 76, which in turn are connected at their opposite ends to other levers 7 8, pivotedbelow the rail, the links 7 6 engaging with transverse bars 7 9, so as to cause a center bar 82 to be raised or elevated'as'the side bars 170 are depressed.

When the center bar 82 which is provided with downturned ends 83 is in a raised position, it is adapted to engage with the roller 28, moving the segment 2'4land due to engagement with the racks and pinions, moving, the bars 34 and 35 in opposite directions,

and through the train of gearing before described, actu-atlng the register 111 an obvious manner.

When thecar has passed the bars 7 0 they will be raised by the action of the springs a pair of rods slidably mounted below the platform, racks formed with said rods, pinions intervening between said racks, a seg ment moving the lowermost of said racks,

a roller carried at the extending ends of said segment, and track-side connections adapted to engage with said roller when the wheels of the car pass thereover.

2. In a street car registering device, the

Copies of this patent may be obtained for combination with a pair of indicators ar- .ing from said segment, a roller carried by said lever, a pair of bars arranged closely contiguous to the rails over which the car runs, a single bar mounted centrally between said rails, means for holding the first named bars in a normally raised position, said bars being adapted to be depressed by the passage of the car wheel, and connections between the first named bars and said center bars whereby the latter is raised, when the first named bars are depressed, so as to come into contact with said roller.

3. In a car indicator operating device, the combination with a pair of indicators adapted to indicate stations arranged at each end of a car, a casing suspended below said car, a pair of racks slidable longitudinally in said casing, means for holding said racks in a normal central position, pinions engaging between said racks whereby they are caused to move in opposite directions, teeth upon the lowermost rack, a segment pivotally mounted on said casing adapted to engage with the lower teeth of said rack, a lever extending downwardly from said segment, a roller carried thereon, a bar arranged between the rails over which the car passes, means for automatically raising said bar whereby said roller is brought in contact and said rack operated simultaneously, means for diverting the longitudinal reciproc-ating motion of said racks into rotary motion in one direction only, and connecttions between said racks and said indicators whereby they are actuated interi'nittently.

In testimony whereof I have afiixed my JOSEPH URBANEK.

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